SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO

Strong support from the international community is needed to ensure 'positive momentum' is sustained between Serbia and Kosovo, a United Nations envoy told the Security Council today, adding that progress cannot be taken for granted . UNTV

Political leaders in Bosnia and Herzegovina are still falling short of the expectations of their citizens and the international community, causing the country to slip farther behind its neighbours in regional integration, the Security Council was told today (14 May). UNTV

UN Security Council meets in the wake of a recent explosion which took place in Mitrovica in northern Kosovo. Serbian President Boris Tadic calls on the UN Mission in Kosovo “to make use of its reserved powers” to restore the province’s legitimate framework which he says was “discarded by the secessionist.” UNTV

Ten years after the Brahimi report on peacekeeping reform, former UN Adviser and Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi says that if the UN received “no more than 10,000 troops to be deployed outside of Kabul” in early 2002, “the situation in the unhappy country would have evolved much more positively then it did.” UNTV / FILE

The UN Nuclear Watchdog Agency is working with the Serbian government to clean up nuclear fuel which is contained in deteriorating barrels in the village of Vinca. The fuel was used for experiments in the 1950′s and shut down in 1984, but still poses a danger to the community. IAEA